Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA

(Foreign Exchange Department)

CENTRAL OFFICE

NOTIFICATION No. FEMA. 383/2017-RB

Mumbai, the 10th January, 2017

Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

G.S.R. 17(E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (3) of Section 6 and Section 47 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), the Reserve Bank of India hereby makes the following amendments in the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 (Notification No. FEMA. 20/2000-RB dated 3rd May 2000) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Principal Regulations’), namely:-

1. Short Title & Commencement

(i) These Regulations may be called the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017.

(ii) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Amendment to Schedule 1

In Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000, (Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated 3rd May 2000), in Schedule 1, in Annex B.

A. The existing Paragraph F.4 shall be substituted by the following namely:-

B. The existing Paragraph F.6 shall be deleted.

C. The existing Paragraphs F.7, F.8, F.9 and F.10 shall be re-numbered as F.6, F.7, F.8 and F.9 respectively.

[F. No. 1/20/EM/2016]

(Shekhar Bhatnagar)

Chief General Manager-in-charge